Shaking My Shack
January 21, 2009
What a day this has been what a rare mood I’m in why it’s almost like being in love. That’s enough of the song but I’ve just had a wonderful experience. If you have not read “The Shack” I strongly recommend it. I believe it to be the best book I’ve ever read and tonight I had the opportunity to meet the author William Paul Young. What an interesting, gracious, honest fellow. It is hard to explain any of this if you have not read the book. But the book is a life changing experience.
This beautiful story is the tale of a father who loses a child and then meets God in the middle of the woods inside a dirty old shack. Young presents the Holy Trinity in such a way that makes them come alive with truth and honesty. He is truly a man after God’s heart… and God has blessed him richly.
I am reminded of what a fraud I am. My thin veneer is about to break open and expose my old, dirty rundown shack and I’m not sure I’m ready for it. Once God breaks us open there are only two ways to go, and that is to Him or away from Him. It should be so easy yet in my chains of self-control I find it hard to let go of what I call security, but I know real security has no chains.
On the one hand knowing that I can control nothing should be comforting because if I control nothing, then nothing is my fault or my glory. But the feeling of being out of control and letting God have it all at times seems to be my greatest fear. Why am I so afraid? I know that God has a better plan than I do. I also know that he loves me and only wants good things for me so why is it so hard? Because the reality is I want God to lead me to places that I want to go and to have me do things that I want to do and I don’t want to leave my comfort zone to do what He has planned.
There I’ve said it! I want to do things my way in my time and on my schedule and it is possible that my plans may conflict with God’s plans for me. So now I have a choice to make. I can either ignore God and continue to complain about things and live in my old dirty shack with a very thin veneer or I can follow God and rest in the knowledge that He has a better plan. That His shack is a beautiful cottage in the middle of a bucolic garden surrounded by love and peace and grace and truth. It may be hard but I choose love and truth, I choose God.
What a day this has been what a rare mood I’m in why it’s almost like being in love. That’s enough of the song but I’ve just had a wonderful experience. If you have not read “The Shack” I strongly recommend it. I believe it to be the best book I’ve ever read and tonight I had the opportunity to meet the author William Paul Young. What an interesting, gracious, honest fellow. It is hard to explain any of this if you have not read the book. But the book is a life changing experience.
This beautiful story is the tale of a father who loses a child and then meets God in the middle of the woods inside a dirty old shack. Young presents the Holy Trinity in such a way that makes them come alive with truth and honesty. He is truly a man after God’s heart… and God has blessed him richly.
I am reminded of what a fraud I am. My thin veneer is about to break open and expose my old, dirty rundown shack and I’m not sure I’m ready for it. Once God breaks us open there are only two ways to go, and that is to Him or away from Him. It should be so easy yet in my chains of self-control I find it hard to let go of what I call security, but I know real security has no chains.
On the one hand knowing that I can control nothing should be comforting because if I control nothing, then nothing is my fault or my glory. But the feeling of being out of control and letting God have it all at times seems to be my greatest fear. Why am I so afraid? I know that God has a better plan than I do. I also know that he loves me and only wants good things for me so why is it so hard? Because the reality is I want God to lead me to places that I want to go and to have me do things that I want to do and I don’t want to leave my comfort zone to do what He has planned.
There I’ve said it! I want to do things my way in my time and on my schedule and it is possible that my plans may conflict with God’s plans for me. So now I have a choice to make. I can either ignore God and continue to complain about things and live in my old dirty shack with a very thin veneer or I can follow God and rest in the knowledge that He has a better plan. That His shack is a beautiful cottage in the middle of a bucolic garden surrounded by love and peace and grace and truth. It may be hard but I choose love and truth, I choose God.
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